"$d_PROJECTS""Investments/Puetz newsletter/0_Puetz papers notes.txt" www.BillHowell.ca ********** 21Apr2020 +-----+ Nichols Scaffetta - one scientist citing him showed that the Michaelson-Morely experiement DISPROVED relativity!!! https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338226901_Absolute_velocity_of_earth_from_our_stationary_Michelson-Morley-Miller_experiment_at_CIF Absolute velocity of earth from our stationary Michelson-Morley-Miller experiment at CIF, Bogota, Columbia Héctor Múnera Centro Internacional de Física July 2017 Conference: Physical Interpretations of Relativity Theory -2017, PIRT-2017, At Bauman University, Moscow, Russia Twenty years ago, present writer identified weaknesses in the design, execution, and interpretation of classical experiments to measure relative motion of earth and ether. It is not generally known that Michelson did not record the whole observed fringe-shift, but merely its fractional part; same protocol was used by Michelson and Morley, and also by Miller. Hence, the fringe-shift amplitude leading to earth's velocity was systematically underestimated. To confirm this theoretical claim, in the period 2002-2005 we repeated at CIF the interferometer experiment using modern technology, and concomitantly implementing changes in design to fix additional issues in the pioneering experiments. As usual in second-order experiments, two velocities of our sun relative to a preferred frame were obtained from our data: (a) CIF-S in the southern hemisphere: V S = 500 km/s, R.A. = 16h-40m, Dec =-75º, and (b) CIF-N in the northern celestial hemisphere: V S = 365 km/s, R.A. = 5h-24m, Dec = 79º. These values are similar to other estimates of absolute solar velocity, and are consistent with the existence of a preferred frame. Moreover, there is a high correlation between our CIF-S and CIF-N velocities with frequency variations in microwave cavities measured by a Stanford group in 2002 (that they interpreted as consistent with Lorentz invariance), and with the variation of amplitude in the standing-waves experiment by de Haan in 2012. Empirical evidence in natural science should be based on adialeiptometry (i.e., long-term repetitive almost continuous observations), rather than on meager isolated short-term observations at particular times of day. +-----+ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262110440_Evidence_of_synchronous_decadal_to_billion_year_cycles_in_geological_genetic_and_astronomical_events Evidence of synchronous, decadal to billion year cycles in geological, genetic, and astronomical events Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 62-63 (2014) 55–75 Stephen J. Puetz a,⇑, Andreas Prokoph b,c, Glenn Borchardt d, Edward W. Mason d a Progressive Science Institute, 2233 Ala Wai Blvd 3C, Honolulu, HI 96815, USA b Speedstat, 19 Langstrom Crescent, Ottawa, Ontario K1G 5J5, Canada c Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada d Progressive Science Institute, Box 5335, Berkeley, CA 94705, USA Studies on continuously improving records of geological, biological, and astronomical events and processes led to increased awareness of common cycles in the records. Here we enhance the analytical scope of earlier discoveries by showing that most of these cycles occur in unison, as a harmonic series. Furthermore, we consider them universal because extra-terrestrial cycles involving quasar and star formation exhibit comparable periods to terrestrial cycles involving volcanism, extinction patterns, and genetic development. The cycles oscillate in multiples of three, cascading into a period-tripled set of cycles. We provide one equation combining the characteristics of 32 theoretical cycles, with periods ranging from 57.3 years to 1.64 billion years. Our statistical tests show that the astronomical and geological cycles are phase-locked synchronously, while the biological cycles lag. This synchrony suggests a common astronomical cause for geological and biological cycles. Along with the synchrony, the extensiveness of the observed period-tripling indicates that self-similar patterns develop at a universal scale. This suggests that divisible matter is distributed fractally throughout the universe, as postulated by fractal cosmologies, bifurcation theory, and chaos theory. +-----+ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275045319_Evaluating_alternatives_to_the_Milankovitch_Theory Evaluating alternatives to the Milankovitch theory Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference in Press Stephen J. Puetz a,∗, Andreas Prokophb, Glenn Borchardt c a Progressive Science Institute, 2233 Ala Wai Blvd 3-C, Honolulu, HI 96815, USA b Speedstat, 19 Langstrom Crescent, Ottawa, ON, K1G 5J5, Canada c Soil Tectonics, Box 5335, Berkeley, CA 94705, USA Acknowledgments We thank Alex Gottlieb for indispensable statistical consulting services. We also thank Daniel Karner, Wolf Berger, Jean Kane, Ed Mason, Bill Howell, and Rick Dutkiewicz for review and feedback of earlier versions of the manuscript. >> This "Bill Howell" can't be me - I don't remember doing this. (?) # enddoc